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SCIENCE. 



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and inevitably to constitute a tribute of 

 honor to the one man unto whom this gift 

 is now being made. The book belongs to 

 him, by virtue of its history and by virtue 

 of its subject matter. We are but render- 

 ing what is due, and so this gift is made 

 to you. Doctor Victor C. Vaughan, made 

 to you as an acknowledgment of the ser- 

 vices you have rendered to the world of 

 science and this universitj^, to the cause 

 of medical education, to advances in sci- 

 entific work wherever undertaken. 



We have great pleasure in recalling, as 

 President Angell has so feelingly done, the 

 last quarter eentuiy of progress in this 

 university. It is in fidelity to the spirit 

 of advancement, and to service of the 

 truth, that this volume is presented. It is 

 in the conviction that scientific labor is at 

 the heart of education and educational 

 means and methods, that this expression is 

 made. It is to you, Victor C. Vaughan, 

 who twenty-five years ago received the de- 

 gree of doctor of medicine from this uni- 

 versity, previously having received two 

 degrees in science, upon examination here; 

 our friend known and honored in the coun- 

 try and in the world, major and surgeon 

 of the United States Volunteers, a trusted 

 counsellor, preeminently a leader in the 

 work in which you are engaged, in the 

 name of the working contributors to this 

 volume, in the name of the alumni of the 

 department of medicine and surgery, in 

 the name of all the alumni of the univer- 

 sity, we take great pleasure in placing this 

 volume in your hands. 



ADDRESS OP PROFESSOR VICTOR C. VAUGHAN. 



On accepting the volume. Professor 

 Vaughan spoke as follows: 



Mr. President, Gentlemen of the Board 

 of Regents, Doctor Prescott, Memhers of 

 my old class. Colleagues and Friends: 

 This I do not deserve. The world has 

 been more than kind to me; my friends 



have conferred upon me many honors, 

 which might have been more worthily worn 

 by others; but I have never received an 

 honor which I appreciate more highly and 

 in the receiving of which I feel more keenly 

 my unworthiness than in this. The work 

 that I have done for the university and for 

 science is overestimated by those who have 

 been kind enough to speak. 



I owe much to the University of ilich- 

 igan. Thirty years ago when I had se- 

 cured the best education possible in my 

 native state, and when I was looking about 

 for an opportunity to pursue my studies 

 farther, the state of Michigan offered me 

 what I desired and at a cost within the 

 limits of my scanty purse. Whatever I 

 have done, and whatever I may do in the 

 future, will hardly repay the University 

 of Michigan for what it has done for me. 

 This is my feeling towards the university. 

 To those who make up the university, I 

 owe much. To our worthy president, to 

 whom I have always gone in times of dis- 

 couragement for words of cheer, to whom 

 I have always gone in times of indecision 

 or doubt for wise and able counsel, I owe 

 much. To the honorable members of the 

 board of regents I owe much. A few 

 years ago, when it became necessary, on 

 account of death and resignation, to re- 

 organize the medical department, the mem- 

 bers of the board of regents enabled me 

 to select the present most excellent medical 

 faculty. To my colleagues in the univer- 

 sity as a whole I owe much. It has been 

 a pleasure to live among them ; it has been 

 an inspiration to work and be associated 

 with them; and, so far as my immediate 

 colleagues on the medical faculty are con- 

 cerned, I am in the habit of saying, and 

 with great truth, that of all of the research 

 worJi that I have ever done, the grandest 

 and best piece is that, by the authority of 

 the board of regents, I have been able to 



